I own a version of Shanghai: Great Moments that I bought before Windows 95 was supported by the game. I recently bought a new computer running Windows 98SE, and this old version insists that I have to downgrade my video to 256 colours in order to install and play. I guess it's time to upgrade my game. Can anyone suggest what is the best MahJong/Shanghai game out there that will give me lots of play variation and good graphics? I like the animations of the old game.
Please e-mail me if anyone can help. Thanks!
Hello Dale Anderson <danderson18@home.com>, you wrote:
> I own a version of Shanghai: Great Moments that I bought beforeYou mean you bought the lavender CD, the Windows 3.1 version?
> I recently bought a new computer running Windows 98SE, and this oldYes. The game was programmed in 1995. Set the colors to 256 and it should work fine. Set the colors back to your usual setting when finished. Windows 98 puts the Display icon in the taskbar and it's real easy to change the color settings.
> I guess it's time to upgrade my game.That's up to you. ShGM still works in Windows 98.
> Can anyone suggest what is the best MahJong/Shanghai game out thereShanghai: Second Dynasty is the latest version of Shanghai. It doesn't care what color setting you use. You can download a free demo at www.activision.com/downloads.
Tom Sloper, Activision
Executive Producer, Shanghai
tsloper@activision.com
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Before you buy.
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:46:34 GMT, Tom Sloper <tsloper@my-deja.com> wrote:
>Yes. The game was programmed in 1995. Set the colors to 256 and itI still don't understand why a 1995 game would require switching to 256 colors ;) I don't remember seeing any palette animation in Shanghai Great Moments ;)
>Set the colors back to your usual setting whenBut it's boring to do ;)
(As boring as having to dig out the CD-Rom just to play ;))
Or this very successful one, in 2D and real 3D ;-) (you may call it a clone if you want, but I'd rather say it's part of a community ;)) http://kyodai.com
*grin*
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René-Gilles Deberdt (Naoki)
Kyodai Mahjongg 3D, http://kyodai.com/
Cyber Namida, http://kyodai.com/namida/
Hi,
Can the demo program be downloaded to an Iomega disk and played
from there???
I do have enough ram and disk capacity but was curious if I could
use the disk almost like a second drive. Or do you need the
various DLLs, etc... in the hard drive?
Thanks, Hella
Tom Sloper wrote:
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> Hello Dale Anderson <danderson18@home.com>, you wrote:
>
> > I own a version of Shanghai: Great Moments that I bought before
> Windows 95 was supported by the game.
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On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:37:02 -0700, Hella Oratz
<skellag@foxinternet.net> wrote:
I think it can be done for Shanghai 2nd Dynasty, although I'm not sure ;) Because it uses 3rd-party components and maybe external DLLs. Your comments, Tom ?
What I'm sure of, is that if you install Kyodai, you can then copy your Kyodai directory to a zip iomega drive and indeed play from it.
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René-Gilles Deberdt (Naoki)
Kyodai Mahjongg 3D, http://kyodai.com/
Cyber Namida, http://kyodai.com/namida/
I had written:
>>> Shanghai: Second Dynasty is the latest version of Shanghai. [snip]From: Hella Oratz <skellag@foxinternet.net>
>>Can the demo program be downloaded to an Iomega disk and playedNaoki put in his two francs:
>I think it can be done for Shanghai 2nd Dynasty, although I'm not sureUnlike Monsieur Haga-san, I am not a one-man show. I didn't program the demo and I'm not the webmaster and I'm not in Tech Support. So the only way I could find out the answer to this question was to try it. Netzip Download Demon automatically placed the download on the C: drive. So some space on the C: drive is required. Then when it offered to install for me, I selected Yes, and told it to install to my Iomega Zip Drive (Hella didn't say what kind of Iomega drive she has -- I only have the Zip drive, so that's all I can talk about).
When I clicked "Play," it played fine from my Zip drive. So the answer is "yes, it will run on a Zip drive."
However, I happen to know that Hella Oratz already owns Shanghai: Mah-Jongg Essentials. Hella, it would really be a waste of your time to download and run the demo.
Shanghai Mah-Jongg Essentials is a stripped-down version of Shanghai Second Dynasty.
The Shanghai Second Dynasty demo serves equally as a demo of SMJE and SSD.
Hella, if you do not play the Shanghai tile-matching games, and if you only use the mah-jongg tiles, it would be a waste of your money to buy Shanghai Second Dynasty.
Tom